Earlier this month there was an interesting news tidbit as regards Iranian film: Netflix had chosen to distribute Wishbone, a new movie by accomplished director...
Comedian and actor Maz Jobrani is officially ON FIRE! On the heels of his well-received Netflix premiere ('Immigrant'), The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced that Jobrani...
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Ideene Dehdashti, but that's all about to change. The Michigan born Iranian-American comedian/actor recently created a really funny...
Having appeared in hit shows like, Homeland, Iron Man, and The Kite Runner (just to name a few), the Iranian born actor is no stranger to the big stage...
Kaveh Mazaheri’s Iranian short film Retouch was nominated for not just one but two awards at the Michael Moore founded Traverse City Film Festival. Nominated for the “Audience...
Young Iranian-American actress Medalion Rahimi has been learning to be herself, and it’s been landing her roles. From her start as a young model and...
BaranBand, headed by brothers Gian and Marouf Majidi, is a musical lover's delight that blends the brothers' Kurdish Iranian tradition and different musical cultures, genres and roots....
Mesmerized by KamanChello playing, a duo string performance of the Persian Kamcheh and occidental Cello, the highly diverse audience comprised of not only Iranians from...
There’s something of a notorious trend with the wives and girlfriends of celebrities: headlines which proclaim their achievements inextricable to the shadows of their partners....
We have seen Babak Najafi direct many successful films, including London Has Fallen, but his soon to be released Sony Pictures Entertainment film Proud Mary may outshine them...
Western media often portrays Muslim women as living a life of oppression, inequality, sadness, suffering and exploitation, devoid of freedom of speech and independent thinking. I...
The Japanese music talk show J-MELO on NHK World features a unique, charismatic, multitalented celebrity with a relatively uncommon background: May J., a/k/a Mary Jamileh...
Netflix has released the official trailer for 'Immigrant,' the hourlong Maz Jobrani special that covers political humor about being an immigrant in the era of...
Omid Djalili, the award winning 51 year-old Anglo-Iranian actor/comedian just starred in an adaptation of the popular musical, “Fiddler on the Roof.” The musical tells...
Taraneh Alidoosti’s star continues to rise as one of Iran’s finest actresses, and The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) saw fit to improve this awareness here...
Iranian-born tennis legend Mansour Bahrami is getting a movie biopic and it can't come out soon enough! As a professional tennis player Bahrami was only...
Acclaimed filmmaker Anup Singh's "The Song of Scorpions," starring Indian actor Irrfan Khan and Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, will premiere at the 70th Locarno International Film...
Game of Thrones! Westworld! Yes, that’s right, this Iranian composer, born in Duisburg, Germany, to an Iranian father and a German mother, has created musical scores for arguably two of the...
